Alice in Wonderland syndrome does sometimes go away although it can also be lifelong although the person with Alice in Wonderland syndrome may have hallucinations or distortions several times during the day and the manifestations may also take time to subside.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome makes you feel like you have an altered body image and with Alice in Wonderland syndrome you observe sizes of parts of the body wrongly.
And more often than not your head and hands will seem like they are disproportionate and you usually perceive growth of various parts instead of a reduction in size of the various parts of your body.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome is very rare and only affects around 15 percent of people in the general population.
The triggers for Alice in wonderland syndrome are typical migraines, Epstein barr virus infections, psychoactive drugs, brain tumors and temporal lobe epilepsy.
Alice in wonderland syndrome is a condition that describes a set of symptoms with alteration of body image.
In a person who has Alice in wonderland syndrome an alteration of visual perception is found in that way that the sizes of body parts or sizes of external objects are perceived incorrectly.
The most common perceptions with Alice in wonderland syndrome are at night.
The symptoms of Alice in wonderland syndrome include.
Changes in the perception of your body and this can cause part of your body to feel too big (partial macrosomatognosia) or too small (partial microsomatognosia).
Derealization.
Depersonalization.
Feeling of being split in two.
Disruption in sense of time.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is a rare perceptual disorder associated with sensation of one or several visual and/or auditory perceptual distortions including size of body parts, size of external objects, or passage of time (either speeding up or slowing down).
Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is a rare neurological disorder characterized by distortions of visual perception (metamorphopsias), the body image, and the experience of time, along with derealization and depersonalization.
The cause of Alice in Wonderland syndrome is currently unknown, but it has often been associated with migraines, head trauma, or viral encephalitis caused by Epstein–Barr virus infection.
Alice in wonderland syndrome is not the sameas schizophrenia and should not be confused with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and other perceptual disorders, and it deserves to be included in the research agenda of international classifications such as the DSM and ICD.
Time may seem to pass faster or slower than you think.
Alice in wonderland syndrome primarily affects children and young adults.
Most people grow out the disordered perceptions as they age, but it's still possible to experience this in adulthood.
Alice in wonderland syndrome is also known as Todd's syndrome.
And people with Alice in Wonderland Syndrome can experience auditory hallucinations and changes in their perception of time.
Currently, there is no known specific cause of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome.